Gerald Butts: Die Sezessionskrise in Quebec kommt und Kanada ist nicht bereit

>Housing prices are skyrocketing, lack of competition for basic services has sent theirs into the stratosphere, and governments of all stripes are spending lavishly but finding few solutions.

Gerald Butts was part of the OLP government that created the greenbelt without changing zoning in Ontario. He posts proudly about his work on greenbelt on his website.

He was also in the PMO of Justin Trudeau, whose radical expansion of immigration created a demand shock.

Gerald Butts is one of the worst bureaucrats in Canadian history. His legacy is the worst housing crisis in the developed world. Yet he feels the idiotic impulse to lecture the rest of the country on what’s wrong.

**Edit**: I forgot the fake refugee crisis plaguing Quebec that was caused by LPC changes to visa policies and Trudeau’s public image as soft on illegal immigration. A major source of provincial relations breaking down in Quebec he conveniently ignores

Have they really thought this threw?

We are a distinct culture that deserves its own country.

The indigenous people of Quebec might want the vast majority of land mass in Quebec back.

If it does come, It will very likely be under Pierre’s watch. I genuinely wonder how he’d respond. His base is very openly spiteful to the Province so if he tries anything but “fuck off” it won’t go well for him with the base.

This is a great read, if only to get a reminder about how wedded the senior LPC cadre still is to the idea that things are still going fantastic in Canada and that the public is just delusional or being misled into not seeing it.

However, he’s also not wrong in many of his observations, particularly that the LPC “lost sight of the need to make a consistent positive case for the country and the concomitant responsibility to build support for the unique national attributes that set Canada apart”. However, I think he misses the active role the LPC played in many ways in undermining a sense of national identity by focusing so heavily on negative historical points about Canada, rather than instances where we’ve come together.

I think he’s also right when he says “[m]y read of the national mood in the rest of Canada is that we will not see a repeat of the Unity Rally of 1995.” I went to that unity rally, and I personally wouldn’t go again if something like that happened again, sadly. Probably a lot of us feel that way, like there’s nothing to fight for any more.

Before getting to the substance of this article, Butts saying that the LPC made a mistake by failing to continually make a case for Canada being a great nation is rather humourous. He was at the centre of the LPC for years, so any such failure is his personally, not just the failure of some third, multi-headed party.

And the substance of this article means nothing without Butts taking about the clarity act. Yes, it is possible that the next sovereignty referendum will result in the separatists winning the vote, but the process for Quebec becoming it’s own country starts after that, the referendum is not the process. Without a look at how that act would moderate the chaos of a yes vote, this article is pointless, and I’d like the past 15 minutes back.

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This is a boomers dream. Fortunately, they are no longer enough to win this one.

This paper is only there to attract attention, I was there in 1995 and there is no fever nor desire to have separation. That being said, the fall of Meech Lake agreement fuelled that passion so there is always a risk a federal Prime Minister could create the famous “conditions gagnantes”.